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INSULA

By María ONIS

BAFICI - BUENOS AIRES INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL - as FEST

Documentary - Completed 2019

A young couple is making a documentary about an aboriginal community in Argentina. In the process of editing the film, important conceptual differences arise between them, forcing them to question and reassess the meaning of their work.

Festivals
& Awards

BAFICI (Buenos Aires) 2019

Competencia Argentina

Visions du Réel 2019

Burning Lights

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Documentary, Comedy, First film
- Countries
- ARGENTINA
- Languages
- SPANISH
- Budget
- N/A
- Duration
- 85 mn
- Director(s)
- María ONIS
- Writer(s)
- Laura AMDAN, Maria ONIS
- Cast
- Francisco BENVENUTTI, María SOLDI
- Producer(s)
- Laura AMDAN (LAURA AMDAN), Maria ONIS
- Synopsis
- A young couple is working on a documentary about the hunter-gatherer lifestyle of a Wichí community in the North of Argentina. She is an anthropology student and her boyfriend studies film. As they edit the footage, troubles arise regarding the conceptual framework and significance of the documentary. How should they portray this community for their urban audience? Should they cut out certain scenes, to satisfy their own aesthetic prejudice and symbolic interpretation of the depicted actions and situations? These issues come to light in a wide range of circumstances, from the most common clichés of intellectual correctness to humorous contradictions sprung from the methods of social analysis and meta-narratives of cinematographic devices. During these quarrels, both sides remain unable to escape their own contradictions, leading to conceptual loops or multiple possible answers. From their encounter with the community emerges a triangulation of universes that is characterized by as much isolation as proximity, representing their desire to understand and identify with the other, while still feeling that deep isolation.

INSULA

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